Gabriel, an orchestra and the Humo Arena: Sevara Nazarkhan on stage

Sevara Nazarkhan reached her first large audiences as the opening act on Peter Gabriel's Growing Up tour. Her website counts more than fifty concerts with him across Europe, the United States and Canada. Real World Records keeps a video of her singing "Adolat Tanovari" from that run at the Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam. In 2004 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported that she planned further dates in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, among them the Barcelona Forum 2004 festival.

The studio brought other partners. Hector Zazou produced Yol Bolsin, and Victor Sologub and Bruno Ellingham worked on Sen. Her name also appears on Big Blue Ball, which came out in the United States on 24 June 2008. That album grew out of three recording weeks at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in the summers of 1991, 1992 and 1995, with guests from several continents, among them Natacha Atlas and Papa Wemba. On "Everything Comes from You" Sevara sings backing vocals next to Sinéad O'Connor, Richard Evans, Joji Hirota and Guo Yue.

A different scale arrived in Tashkent. On 21, 22 and 23 December 2019 she played the Humo Arena, an ice sports complex that was not built for concerts. Afisha.uz reports that the crew insulated the floor and hung fabric where it was needed, and that four screens behind her showed abstract images, sky, space and earth. The first night drew almost ten thousand people, according to the same report, and a third show went on sale a few days before the date after the first two sold out.

Beside her stood a youth symphony orchestra under the conductor Kamoliddin Urinbaev and a youth choir of about thirty singers from the Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan. The orchestra had strings, keyboards, percussion, winds and a harp. Rehearsals with it began about two months earlier. A dancer with traditional braids moved to the music. The programme gathered lyrical songs from different years and albums, most of them in Uzbek and several in Russian.

A sign-language interpreter worked next to her on stage, and some of the deaf children in the audience climbed up to sing with her. Sevara told Afisha.uz that the meaning of a concert matters more to her than the sound alone, and that it is enough if one song or one moment lands with a listener. The evening ended with a duet with Sherali Juraev, a collaboration she had wanted for a long time.